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I like to treat the critique process kind of like a user test. For that reason, I would like to find somebody good at describing their thoughts, feelings, and reactions and at relevant points in the text. I also try to do this to give people I critique the most valuable data for revisions.
Short stories that are sincere and reflective. They will usually have some type of a speculative element.
*Stereotypical genre fiction.
*Anything erotic or excessively violent.
*Most sword and sorcery fantasy
*Fanfiction
Lots of Ray Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, October Country, Farenheight 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Bladerunner)
The Philip K. Dick Reader (Lots of Philip Dick's earlier work)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Flatland (and Sphereland)
Persepolis
The Shining
The Hobbit
Holes
Various myths and folklore
Some Nonfiction:
Freakonomics
The Medusa and the Snail / Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
Lots of Malcolm Gladwell
I made a goal last summer to write at least one short story per week and managed to stick with it! I intend to keep on doing this! I encourage any other new writer to do the same!
